Award Show Bedlam! ANDYs jury finalized, Tutssel takes Cannes

Well Elect The Jury, the ANDY Awards‘ grand experiment in crowdsourcing to select who will be on the 2010 panel of judges, is over. After a whole host of videos appeals, blog entries and tweets, tweets, tweets galore (I’m looking at you, Rob Schwartz) it appears that we have a final jury of 25.

It looks like the voters didn’t heed the words of Ty Montague in our recent interview with him, when he said there were “too many white traditional guys from North America.” This final jury is big on testosterone, low on melanin and nearly 3/4 US based, but hey, what are you gonna do? The people have spoken.

This time around, the jury will get together in New Orleans from February 21–27th (psst, hold it a week or so earlier in the middle of Mardi Gras!) 

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Mark Tutssel, Chief Creative Officer of Leo Burnett Worldwide is gonna be one busy judge in 2010. Not only is he on the ANDYs jury above, Mark will also be heading the Film & Press Juries for the latest edition of Cannes Lions.

According to the Festival CEO Philip Thomas, speaking through the Press-Release-o-Matic 5000, ”Mark’s profound industry knowledge, leadership expertise and extraordinary ability to nurture creative talent, are skills that combined with his passion for creative excellence make him an obvious choice for the demanding role of leading two Cannes juries.”

Commenting on his appointment as Film & Press Jury President, Mark Tutssel says, “I am delighted and extremely flattered to be asked to preside over the world’s biggest celebration of creativity in communications.”